"Is your BF about? We want a bag and got cash": Bride-to-be helped fiance run a COCAINE racket... but avoids jail as she's now pregnant with his child

A bride-to-be who helped her fiancé deal cocaine has been spared jail after it was revealed that she had just become pregnant with his child. Sasha Ellis-Johnson, 22, helped Joe Cooke, 21, to sell cocaine to friends to pay off a £2,000 drug debt.

For six months, she received messages on Cooke's behalf as he peddled the Class A drugs. Some of the texts she received read: ''Can we pick up another bag? Got cash. We will get a taxi there and back if Joe wants to sell for us.''

Another said: ''Hey love is your bf about cause we want a bag and got cash’ to which she replied, ‘'Ring thís number or text it... he's going to ring you now.'' The couple's operation was busted as the pair were getting into a taxi near their home in Crewe, Cheshire.

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Officers searched their house and found cocaine ready for delivery, scales, snap bags, and cash in a drawer in the couple’s bedroom. Further drugs were found stashed in Cooke's underpants.

In a statement Ellis-Johnson said: ''At the time of the offending I was aware Joe had a cocaine habit and had accumulated a drug debt. As a result he was selling drugs to pay off his drug debt.

"'I was never directly involved in the supply of drugs but accept that I facilitated in the supply of drugs by providing contact details of my partner and passing contact details on to him. I was contacted by friends who wanted to buy cocaine and I passed Joe's contact details on to them.

''In relation to the message exchanges, this was a time when Joe used my phone. I accept that I facilitated the drug exchange at that time with the messages from my mobile phone. I was never involved with supplying users